Champions League

Manchester City wins, Atletico not

The favorite from Manchester comes in Kiev to be an important success and a must on the entry into the Champions League quarter-finals hope. Not so good it worked out for Atletico Madrid, and, despite the Majority not a goal.

The English Vice champion Manchester City is on the best way for the first time in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Without the injured Ex-Wolfsburg Kevin De Bruyne, the Team of coach Manuel Pellegrini in the last sixteen first leg of the Ukrainian Champions Dynamo Kiev 3:1 (2:0) and got an excellent starting position for the second leg.

City Striker Sergio Aguero (15. Minute) and David Silva (40.) met in a strong first half for the Tabellenvierten the Premier League in the last two seasons in the second round, the FC Barcelona had failed. Vitali Bujalski (59.) scored the first goal, before Yaya Touré (90.) the final score hit.

Eindhoven with little chance of

A lot of fight, no goals – Eindhoven fights for draw

Not so successful was the Spanish club Atletico Madrid during a performance in Eindhoven. The Finalist of 2014 came at the Dutch Championships only to a goalless draw, Atletico remained in the fifth of seven Games in the Premier League without conceeding a goal, missed in the final phase, however, in the Majority of the victory. The PSV in the group their home games against Manchester United (2:1), VfL Wolfsburg (2:0) and CSKA Moscow (2:1) had won, lost attacker Gaston Pereiro in the 68. Minute Yellow-Red after repeated foul play. The Team of Coach Philip Cocu is now the outsider into the second leg at 15. March at the Estadio Vicente Calderón. For nine years, has a Dutch Team more the round of the best Eight of the Champions League achieved.

tk/rb (sid, dpa)